Guild of Darksteel

I feel teased and unsatisfied. That being said, everything offered here is enthralling, and I WANT MORE!

Short and good. Combat is very rythmic, with a powercurve that aligns very well with enemy difficulty as the game progresses. The music's rather nice, but it can get repetitive. The story is nothing special, but it's told and revealed well. 7,3/10

Good story. Nice dialogue. Enjoyable pixel-art but it was very short. Combat was a little repetitive but a decent amount of combo upgrades. It got kind of stale at the end, but the story kept me going. Plays great on the Steam Deck. Pick it up on sale or in a bundle.

[h1]Overall: 1/10[/h1] [h3]Random game key: 52/152[/h3] This is just terribly bland. This is one of the most boring 30 minutes I've spent in any game.

The screenshots basically show you the entire game--including the final boss fight and the combo you will need to use in it. The art is indeed really good, but there's not much to the gameplay at all. It has the feeling of a project that probably had a lot of planned features but they were never implemented. While it's a finished game, it feels really sparse. It's like a polished MVP (minimum viable product). The platforming doesn't really serve any purpose in this game except to give you a sense of exploration. But there's hardly any points of interest or variety so there's not much point to it. Enemy encounters trigger a separate battle mode like what happens in RPG Maker games--it's not integrated into the platforming aspect. The overworld is just a single long flat platform with no warp points. There's no jumping, climbing, or sprinting in the overworld which is boring and annoying because all the quest NPC's and dungeon access points are spread out pretty wide. In battle mode neither you nor the enemy can move. The enemy has an attack pattern on a timer that it repeats verbatim. You have to time your attacks for when the enemy is vulnerable and block when its attacking you. It's just like Deep Dungeons of Doom in this respect. The difference is that you can do combos in this game. But the battles are very repetitive and uninteresting just like with generic RPG Maker games. There's not much variety of enemies and you pretty much stick with the same attack pattern all the time. By the way the final boss fight was a huge disappointment and anticlimatic. The story is linear. There's one ending and only one way to get there. There's a couple of missable side-quests but they're not important in any way unless you want the achievements. I didn't count but i think there's only like 5 main quest segments. The game is really short and can be beat in about 3 hours without trying. The NPC's aren't interesting at all because there's hardly any dialogue and most just have one thing they say on repeat no matter what. Other than basically being a barebones game, there's also 2 bugged achievements that the dev never fixed and probably never will. I got the game for cheap so i'm more annoyed about the time wasted playing this and the broken achievements.

操作奇怪，文本还不少，没中玩着费劲~

nice art and animations but everything else is meh

"Guild of Darksteel" is a short dark-fantasy adventure by a solo-developer with a nice and unique atmosphere and intriguing worldbuilding. The writing is solid, but there are some typos. Sadly the combat, while interesting at first, feels kinda repetitive later and the movement is a little janky. There are some minor bugs (some achievement-related) too. It is still an interesting albeit rough experience, which can be recommended on a discount.